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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1906
Page
1
The Citizens list presents W. I. Agnew as Aberdeen City Attorney with a boosted salary, praising his law career and landmark saloon case. Charles H. Doncaster is nominated for street commissioner, described as a capable carpenter with strong municipal record and reliable record-keeping plans.
The Ciizene ticket nominee for police judge is introduced by his two years as Aberdeen justice of the peace and 1903 city attorney work. A Washington attorney since 1888, he served as Columbia County’s county attorney and commanded Washington troops in the Spanish American War. He was adjutant general of the state militia 1899 to 1901, then moved to Aberdeen to resume law practice and later won all five city cases in the superior court, with three of four appeals to the supreme court decided in the city’s favor.
The First ward council candidates are M. R. Sherwood and Claud Leitch. Sherwood, Union mill manager and longtime Aberdeen resident, served on the 1903 council aiding post fire reconstruction. Leitch, a saw mill worker, is described as qualified and aligned with working men and a progressive businesslike city administration.
A S Brecht on the Citizens ticket for Second ward council seat is a current council member praised as conscientious and diligent. An Aberdeen native, he spent years in the mill and now serves as Grays Harbor agent for the Singer Manufacturing Co. The Second ward is expected to reelect him with a handsome margin.
James H. Hood, long prominent in Aberdeen, is the other Citizens’ ticket nominee for the Fourth ward council seat. A former mayor and councilman, he is praised for loyalty, experience, and a record of city service and shipbuilding investment.
Arthur J. Rupert, vice president and general manager of West & Slade Grocery Co., is a longtime Aberdeen businessman and former Wellington Ohio mayor seeking Fifth ward councilman. A. L. Davenport is Rupert’s fellow nominee, regarded as a solid figure in local business circles.
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